Marriage is what brings us together today

In the next 6 weeks 4 of my friends are getting hitched. I went to Brandon's reception last night and will be going to Haley, Britt, and Rebecca's in the next few weeks. I started thinking about my own marriage last night, and what I've learned in the last year and 1/2. I've learned that differences is what makes marriage interesting and hard. Its such an exciting thing when your engaged and first married, starting out on your own and working together. Its still exciting, just a different kind of exciting. All the sudden you have different things to worry about. It still amazes me that when both Chase and I were single it seemed like money went so much further. I think that one of my favorite things about being married is that as long as I treat Chase with respect and love, I know that Chase will be there. He will patiently listen to me tell him every little thing about my day when he's been at work all day long because he knows that I will stop talking at some point in the future and listen to him talk about his day :). Chase will be there when I am tired, or mad, or super hyper happy. I'm just as happy sitting on the couch talking or watching TV as I would be going out and doing some really exciting thing because either way, I'm doing it with him.
I've been thinking about an article that I read in the January Ensign about a sister who had gotten married recently and she told about how they had gotten in a fight and stopped talking to each other. She said by the end of the day she was so tired of them not talking, so she kneeled down and said a prayer. She asked Heavenly Father to please help her husband to know that he was wrong (I think this story hit me so hard because I had said a similar prayer like 10 minutes before...) and come apologize so they could start talking again. She then heard the words "Do you want to be right, or do you want to be married?" in her mind. She said, but Heavenly Father, I know that I'm right! Again, the words came "Do you want to be right, or do you want to be married". She decided to apologize to her husband. In the last 6 months since I've read that story, I've thought of those words so often. I have really tried to put my pride aside and do what I know Chase needs, or say that I was sorry, or not get offended so easily. So, that would be my advice to those getting married. When you have disagreements, and you will :), just think, "Do you want to be right, or do you want to be married?".
I love you Chase!